Battery powered lights

Hi,

I'm looking to grow indoors, but with no access to electricity. I have looked at generators but do not think I could find one to stand up to periods of continuous usage for such a time necessary to complete a cycle.

I am now investigating the possible use of car batteries to power a 600w lamp, alternating the batteries to charge.

I know the best kind of batteries for this kind of use would be deep cycle batteries, such as used by marine systems.

I estimate on using around 16 kilowatt hours of power per day to power my entire grow room. Does anyone know how long I would get out of a battery in this kind of set up?

Be interested to speak to anyone with experience growing independant of a main line power supply.

Cheers

Sau

You could hook your batteries into a couple of 110 watt solar panels and a converter and have a constant supply of juice without having to recharge the batteries.

Sounds very interesting.....please oblige us of your knowledge...

A barn or an out bldg with skylights on the roof, or a roof made out of semi transparent fiberglass panels will do the trick.

A deep cycle battery would power a 600Watt bulb for about 15 min. You'd need a warehouse of batteries.
Having a serious lack of electrical knowledge can put yourself in danger if you play around with this stuff.

Yup batteries you will need a bout 5 per hour at full charge so it takes 8 hours for a dead battery to trickle charge to ful so figure 40 batteries to be able to run a cycle and have the other set recharging. Then youll need chargers for each battery and then a setup to make a single auto flip over to each battery as it gets to low and its gonna burn through a few ballasts with the inconsistant amperage so a few grand a week to light 1 light.Complete solar power for 1 600 watt light will run about 12 grand to be completely off grid with storage for the dark hours of operation.A generator you can get a 3500 watt generator for about $250 then you have to add an external larger gas tank and then figure the cost of running the generator for 12-18 hours a day. Most have 8 gallon tanks that will run 8-10 hours so $3.50 a gal times 20 gallons a day is $70 a day or $210 a month for 3 months so $630 a grow.Or just plug the light in for $40 a month if run 24 hours a day fopr 30 day periods and about $25 A MONTH FOR THE FLOWER CYCLE